The bodhisattva Nagarjuna [2nd-century Indian adept] asked himself, “If we follow even the [Buddhist] precepts for laymen we can be born in the celestial world, attain the way of Bodhisattvas, and realize enlightenment. Why, then, is…

A Profile of Thanissaro Bhikkhu and the Metta Forest Monastery

Shokoku Temple is in Northern Kyoto, on level ground, with a Christian college just south of it and many blocks of crowded little houses and stone-edged dirt roads north. It is the mother-temple of many branch…

An interview with Korean Zen Master Samu Sunim

I have often stood on interminable lines—at the bank, the post office, the airport, the supermarket—and succumbed to sharing with other corporate-held hostages those rolled-up eyes, grimaces and audible sighs that communicate extreme annoyance. But more…

re: life as a Korean Nun